Watching G1 Transformers "The Search for Alpha Trion"
Bow before your queen.
Time for the laaaadiies! Our crew is Chromia, Moonracer, Firestar and Elita, natch!
G1 Elita's voice is awesome! Can't wait to get to meet her. I know her from Tf:One, which is what got me into the franchise, so interested to see her origin. Also hoping the cringey 80s sexism won't be too weird.
Very interesting dynamics here among Elita's squad, with Moonracer being something of a loose canon, Chromia more responsible, etc.
And yes. The Origin. The Meme. Shockwave saying "FEMALE". LOL.
What is up with gender in the G1 continuity anyway? Is there like, only a tiny faction of female bots? Were they all killed off? They don't reproduce sexually so what do those terms even mean to alien robots?
LOL Megsy is immediately like "Capture Elita one" Immediately goes for OP's girlfriend. I know it's to be "ahahahaha I've got you now" but in my head it's "eliminate the competition".
G1 Elita! She's so awesome I immediately love her. Very different from Tf:One Elita, but obviously man, she's been doing this for 4 million years. Has some EXPERIENCE.
Also what does this mean for her and OP? Do they have a huge age gap between them now? How devoted were they for her to still be into him 4 million years later? Are they conjunxed?
And of course Screamer comes up with a better plan than Megsy. Screamer and Megsy's dynamic here reminds me of Harley and Joker a bit, like in Mad Love. When Screamer tries to kill the nemesis he doesn't bother with elaborate plans. He GETS. SHIT. DONE.
Megsy has OP's phone number and just casually calls him up to say "I have your girlfriend" Wow what a way for them to reunite.
They got all separated when the arc crashed poor star-crossed lovers. OP's ships are all tragic and star-crossed.
Screamer is being all sinister and hitting on Elita? So she gets to flirt with Screamer AND bag OP? How lucky can one girlbot get!?
And Elita has to rescue him, because 1) she's too badass to be the damsel and 2) Starscream is an actually efficient villain who doesn't mess around. Megs and OP definitely hooked up with efficient badasses after their breakup.
SHE CAN STOP FUCKING TIME!? HOLY SHIT! I MEAN IT NEARLY KILLS HER BUT OMG. DOES THAT MAKE HER ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL AUTOBOTS!?
It's cool how OP's trailer can serve to transport people in trouble, it's a nice little character detail of his transformation.
And it looks like there are other couples separated for 4 million years. Moonracer/Powerglide, Firestar/Inferno, Ironhide/Chromia. Moonracer's talking like she and Screamer have some past rivalry, that'd be a great prequel plot.
Alpha Trion! He was in Tf;One too, and I guess he also gave OP and Elita their abilities here, or knows how they work?
Great animation in this ep really conveying a lot of OP and Elita's feelings without a ton of dialogue, excellent stuff.
And OP and Elita return. Looks like in G1 she turned into a car instead of a bike. And she immediately shoots Shockwave. That's why she punched him in the eye so much in the film.
OP and Elita part. And I feel like we need an ENTIRE storyline about the GirlSquad holding down the autobot fort on Cybertron for 4 million years.
Y'know, the ep doesn't, technically confirm that OP and Elita are dating. You could've said they were just good friends and nothing would contradict it. I was kind of expecting more overt romance.
Anyway apparently this is her only ep, really, in G1. dunno why they never brought her back? This ep was AMAZING. Definitely well worth the wait.
sunny and kel are besties because they get in the same moods. because they get drunk and kel says “bro we should go get mcdonald’s” and then the doorbell rings and sunny’s like “i ordered it after the first shot” and kel’s like “bro.” they’re besties because kel just goes “i’m feeling hobeez today dude” and sunny’s like “hobeez is so lame. lemme get my jacket.” they’re besties because sunny just Calls Him and kel just Answers and the first thing kel says is “dude this chick at work got hornet spray and asked if it was safe to apply directly to skin” and sunny is like “did you kill her, or.” they’re besties because they don’t even miss a beat. they’re besties because “they finish each other’s-” “sandwiches.” they’re besties because they know nothing and everything about each other. they’re besties because they both Get It, and even if they don’t really talk to each other about their emotions, or the things that are eating at the corners of their brains, or the question that’s floating in their head and won’t go away, sometimes it’s better to just go “do you think that seagulls feel love?” and to get the answer “that’s so deep, dude. totally.” while they wipe away a fake tear. they’re besties because, even when they don’t just Automatically Know what’s wrong, they don’t ask, they just talk and distract and be there and maybe they aren’t doing a good enough job and maybe they need to talk about their emotions and maybe they need therapy and maybe it’s stupid and it’s silly and it’s ridiculous and it’s not really helpful but y’know what, fuck you, i don’t want to talk about what’s wrong. i want to get stoned and watch every clifford movie. because sometimes i just don’t want to talk about it for a little while, sometimes it’s waited for years and it can wait another weekend while we both think about nothing but how is your mario party luck so good, seriously dude what the fuck, this is so unfair.
i love how sir thomas sharpe (baronet ™) gets infantilised by people who have the hots for tom hiddleston. like. “oh he never killed any of them <3″ “he has his eyes closed so he’s clearly uncomfortable <3″ “he tries to help edith escape in the end”
babes this man fed his wives poisoned tea, had a child with his actual sister by wife #3, slept with two (2) women in his life even though he was married four times, got his sister out of the asylum she was put in for murdering their mother and quite possibly their father, only grew a conscience once he actually fell in love with one of the women he was exploiting and killing (because fuck uglies, immigrants and the disabled, it’s not that bad if we kill them right? we don’t care about women we don’t want to sleep with), and THEN he didn’t even try to get edith out, you do realise that, right? the extent of his protests was “no i want to keep this one actually” there was never a point where he even considered leaving lucille behind.
he’s just as bad as lucille, just as codependent AND he doesn’t have a spine. and personally i love him for it, truly one of the most characters ever.
